St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-06
FROM SHOP AND MILL.
The Trouble Which the Milwaukee Daily
Papers Are Having With
Union Printers.
Printers Protective Fraternity Men En-
ployed--- The Papers Issuedin
Reduced Size.
Decision i'll the United States Circuit
Court That the Boycottis
Misdemeanor.
Doings of Millers, Coopers, Printers
and Various Other Men
Who Labor.

The printers employed on the three daily
papers of Milwaukee, printed in English,
stuck at 10 o'clock on Tuesday. March 1.
The greater part of all the printers en-
ployed in the Job offices of the city also
struck at the same time. The demands of
the printers are thus stated by the Senti-
mel. editoralIy:
On Sunday, the Goth ult., the Typographical
union of this city held meeting at which il
resolved to demand an increase in the rates
paid for composition of cents per LOCO ems,
or IS cents per 1000 for work on afternoon
papers and As cents per 1000 on morning
papers. They further adopted long series
OF rules and regulations respecting work by
men employed by the week in news and job
Offices modifying the hours of labor, increas-
ing the price of work done beyond eight
hours, and many minor points of no interest
to the public, but where they differed from
existing rules designed to further increase
the pay of compostorS.
The employers received notice on the 22d
OF February in printed circular containing
the new schedule The Sentinel says:
AT the time this notice was given the pres
ident and three of the five directors of the
sentinel company were absent from the city,
and so far away that no communication could
be had with them except by telegraph and a
night. The business manager of the Sentinel
was also absent, and did not return until
the Following Friday. One of the pro-
prietors of the Daily Journal was also absent
IN the South and his partner was not willing
to take the responsibility of acting without
hearing from him. The consequence was
that representatives of these papers, and of
the Evening Wisconsin met last Saturday and
joined in requesting the union, in view of the
circumstances, to delay final action and ap-
point committee to confer with them on
Friday, March 4, promising to come to deci-
sion directly afterward.
On Sunday, Feb. q, the union met and
rejected the request for delay. A commit
tee was also appointed to wait OH the EN-
binding them to the proposed scale for three
years. On Monday the committee and
the newspaper employers held conference,
and the employers offered as compromise,
raise of cents, making the price SO cents
on afternoon papers and Al cents
on morning papers. This proposition
was quickly rejected by the printers.
Tuesday morning the newspapers decided
not to accept the terms offered by the print
ers, and at l o'clock the typos quit work.
The papers Immediately telegraphed to
Cleveland, st. Louis. Kansas City and
elsewhere for members of the Printers
Protective fraternity, and since that time
men have been arriving daily. This
organization originated in Kansas City, and
there are now sixteen fraternities in
existence. The basis of Organization
is practically the same as that of the typo
graphical union. except that under no cir
cumstances has the fraternity power to
order strike. 1t believes in arbitration
of difficulties and not in strikes. The Mil
waukee papers have issued daily but in re-
duced size. and promise by next week to
issue full size. On Thursday the pressmen
quit work, as they would not print from
type set by non-union men. In the Sen
tinel office the stereotyper and two assistant
pressmen did the presswork. On Thursday
the printers offered to go back to work at
the prices offered by the papers in compro-
mise, but this was refused.